The Long, Winding Road to Compromise

In two weeks' time the People's Consultative Assembly will meet in a special session as the rift between the president and the opposition deepens.

July 17, 2001

Finding a solution to the present conflict between President Abdurrahman Wahid and the opposition is like trying to carry out a Sisyphean labor. Wahid's invitation to leaders of the opposition to a meeting on Monday in Bogor was responded to only by Matori Abdul Djalil, chairman of the president's own National Awakening Party (PKB). The night before, five political parties—PDI-P, Golkar, PPP, PAN, PBB—met behind closed doors. Later in the

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